This iris is from my first year of pollen smearing. Prissy
Miss X Olympiad

I was just learning so I was crossing anything that
didn't move. I had about50 pods. I did not know to stripp the leaves from
the stalk.With all therain that year I ended up with two pods all others
rotted ,off..Out of 25 or so seedlings all were yellows except this one.
It has thecoloring of Chubby Cheeks. I took it to our show to day. I got a
blue withit. 11 seedlings were entered. Someone else took another blue
ribbon andbest seedling. Judges said they liked all three of my
seedlings.

Not too bad for a newbie.

I had knee replacement 6
weeks ago and was at therapy Friday when it startedraining. Rained all
day. Not much other things to take to show because ofrain damage. Took
Laced Legacy and got a blue. Four iris and 2 blues. Withknee someone had
to drive me to the show and help set them up. So I didn'ttry
more.